From: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
To: Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
"linux-man@vger.kernel.org" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AW: [PATCH v2] tsearch.3: Simplify type usage and remove unneeded casts
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 10:30:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f94a16f3-9546-987c-f7fe-30e7cfdb9720@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16456ba5979244e0981c3764fd564c49@bfs.de>
Hello Walter,
On 2020-09-07 09:54, Walter Harms wrote:
> Hello,
> i am sorry to interrupt here but ...
> IMHO the void *val is here for a reason, because it means
> "this can be anything" the reason why int ** works here is
> that the example uses int. You make the example to specific
> in this case. may be the example from bsearch is better here.
I would say the example isn't clearer with `void *` and the cast; I see
it OK as it is now. But let's see what others think about it...
Cheers,
Alex.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-05 10:50 [PATCH] tsearch.3: Simplify type usage and remove unneeded casts Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-05 15:35 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-05 15:41 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-05 16:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-05 19:42 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-07 7:54 ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-09-08 8:30 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
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